Enough is Enough! "Fear and Trembling" is Not about Ethics
Journal of Religious Ethics 21 (2):191 - 209 (1993)
| Abstract | In the literature of philosophy and religious ethics, Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling has, with few exceptions, been read as a work focused on ethical questions concerning the norms governing human conduct. However, ethical readings of this book not only miss important features of the text, they render its argument internally incoherent. These problems disappear when Fear and Trembling is understood primarily as a discussion of Christian soteriology that symbolically uses the Abraham story to develop the classical Pauline-Lutheran doctrine of justification through faith alone. | |||||||||
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